The morning sun hadn't yet burned off the dew clinging to the spiderwebs strung between the hydra...

The morning sun hadn't yet burned off the dew clinging to the spiderwebs strung between the hydrangea bushes when Jennifer Rebecca Jay #7—known to everyone as Miss J—burst into the kitchen, her small fists clenched at her sides. "Mom!" she cried out, her voice cracking with desperation. "I don't want to go to school! Not today, not ever!" Her eyes, wide and pleading, shimmered with unshed tears as she stood trembling in her stiff new uniform. Across the room, her twin sister Rebecca Jennifer Jay